The DMCA is utter stupidity, but if you must have it, it ought to be fixed, so that there is an active penalty for perjury. So long as it is a joke, it should be treated like one. And if people have found ways to abuse the takedown process, then I would be more than happy for companies like Google to also 'abuse' the takedown process and make it as onerous for content dealers and peddlers to lie, cheat and otherwise do business as usual.
Also, if copyright was cut back to its original form, things would be very different, and there would be a lot more innovation going on, instead of useless lawsuits. And yes, people would have less incentive to cheat stuff - a lot of films I remember from my childhood would be public domain by now.
Copyright is an unnaturally parasitic monopoly process, as industries that manage without it prove. And I dare anyone to say there is no innovation or money in fashion or Formula 1, or other idea-based industries.
Having looked at the collection, there is some interesting stuff there, but not necessarily anything I'd pay out so much for. It's one thing shelling out a few quid on a game that you can play for several hours and replay. It's another thing paying the cost of a DVD movie or Netflix subscription to 'acquire' a single documentary (niche subject or not).
One of the major reasons I don't bother with things like Google Play Movies/TV, despite the phenomenal choice and the convenience of having on phone/tablet is the ridiculous prices. Like with too many e-books, there are simply no savings for it being digital (and possibly only effectively a licence). So there is no incentive to buy something that I can get a DVD of and watch on a decent-size screen. (To be fair, I don't have much time for watching on phone or tablet.) So if the prices for these offerings suck, they won't be likely to be that successful.
If GOG can undercut their competitors with good programming while still providing a useful, DRM-free product, I'm happy to chuck pounds their way.
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And if scientists or Democrats said the moon is made of rock and gravity makes you fall, Fox would find 'experts' that disputed these facts... as its 'opposite opinion'.
Then how come every other developed country in the world manages just fine without armed civilians, and even with mostly unarmed police? How come Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, the UK aren't armed battlegrounds with hordes of armed criminals going all Mad Max on poor underarmed civilians and police?
When *you* are the outlier, you have to look at what your problem is. In this case, the "I'm-compensating-for-something" bunch don't want anything that'll make their premature ejaculations even more ineffective...
Then they need to be completely treated like a cable service, including being able to pay those mandated retransmission fees.
Essentially, along with a ridiculous 'seems like' test, the Supremes have made up a completly different, non-legislated for service class for Aereo purely so that the content dealers can continue to trash its service.
Advertisers won't give them money if they bleed viewers to other services, or from TV altogether. So it's killing the (tarnished) golden goose either way. Just one way would allow them to breed a silver goose...
That's dumb. Banks keep being robbed, so let's stop making them so easy to get into. Much safer in nuclear-proof bunkers accessible once a month...
But that's contrary to Google's business, so why should they? Especialyl if you can't trus a DMCA notice to be accurate.
It's not 'making it harder' to submit claims, it's making it hard to abuse. Maybe companies proven to be trustworthy (or willing to pay for that status) can get expedited methods, but nowhere does it say that Google have to bend over backwards to indulge the felonious laziness of DMCA abusers.
That's like saying that cops shooting unarmed people is because of the 'scale' of violent people around. Firstly it's not such a problem, and secondly it doesn't justify the response. Bad automation is a bad response to a bad law, not to the scale of the problem. The scale of the problem is partly created by ridiculous laws, partly by content peddlers who don't know how to offer a decent product, and partly from a lack of understanding of human nature.
I'm pretty sure if you put hidden cameras every 50 feet you'd catch a lot of speeding, but that's making problems out of nowhere. In practice, we ignore a certain amount in order not to cause other problems elsewhere.
Funny how every other industry survives without enforced minimum pricing and artificially limited competitors. Oh wait, I forgot the content peddling industry... who don't even have the excuse of public safety.
We had rioting and looting in the UK a few years ago over someone getting shot by police. Somehow, it totally failed to turn into a one-sided military showdown, and we've at least had real ongoing domestic terrorism to deal with for the last 40 years.
In fact, even the UK Army in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles didn't have one half as much gear and ordnance as the Ferguson Police have. Plus, they weren't suicidal enough to deploy it in such a ham-fisted way.
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Also, if copyright was cut back to its original form, things would be very different, and there would be a lot more innovation going on, instead of useless lawsuits. And yes, people would have less incentive to cheat stuff - a lot of films I remember from my childhood would be public domain by now.
Copyright is an unnaturally parasitic monopoly process, as industries that manage without it prove. And I dare anyone to say there is no innovation or money in fashion or Formula 1, or other idea-based industries.
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One of the major reasons I don't bother with things like Google Play Movies/TV, despite the phenomenal choice and the convenience of having on phone/tablet is the ridiculous prices. Like with too many e-books, there are simply no savings for it being digital (and possibly only effectively a licence). So there is no incentive to buy something that I can get a DVD of and watch on a decent-size screen. (To be fair, I don't have much time for watching on phone or tablet.) So if the prices for these offerings suck, they won't be likely to be that successful.
If GOG can undercut their competitors with good programming while still providing a useful, DRM-free product, I'm happy to chuck pounds their way.
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Oh noes, my .pst files just vanished in a puff of logic!
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When *you* are the outlier, you have to look at what your problem is. In this case, the "I'm-compensating-for-something" bunch don't want anything that'll make their premature ejaculations even more ineffective...
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Essentially, along with a ridiculous 'seems like' test, the Supremes have made up a completly different, non-legislated for service class for Aereo purely so that the content dealers can continue to trash its service.
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But that's contrary to Google's business, so why should they? Especialyl if you can't trus a DMCA notice to be accurate.
It's not 'making it harder' to submit claims, it's making it hard to abuse. Maybe companies proven to be trustworthy (or willing to pay for that status) can get expedited methods, but nowhere does it say that Google have to bend over backwards to indulge the felonious laziness of DMCA abusers.
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I'm pretty sure if you put hidden cameras every 50 feet you'd catch a lot of speeding, but that's making problems out of nowhere. In practice, we ignore a certain amount in order not to cause other problems elsewhere.
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This is like jailing someone for jaywalking - and that's not even illegal here. But even in the US, that's not a really 'harmful' 'crime'.
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And shoplifting 770k copies is rather a lot of material deprivation. Who did he materially deprive here?
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In fact, even the UK Army in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles didn't have one half as much gear and ordnance as the Ferguson Police have. Plus, they weren't suicidal enough to deploy it in such a ham-fisted way.
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After all, don't we have to get permission to 'utilise or transform' every single little individual element of reality that we interact with or share?
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